About Polylana®

The Extremities autumn/winter 2022 collection features Polylana® beanies, a more eco-friendly and sustainable alternative to acrylic beanies.

Polylana® Fiber offers brands and retailers a sustainable choice. The same ‘wool-like’ hand feel and characteristics as acrylic fiber, but with a significantly lower impact. Consumers will enjoy the same quality and value, but with the additional emotion of doing better.

Sustainability is about impact. To compare the impact of different materials, you have to understand the environmental impact (energy, water, CO2, etc.) each material has throughout the supply chain. This is done by an LCA (Life Cycle Assessment). An LCA models the complex interaction between a material and the environment, within a certain production cycle.

To compare the impact of Polylana® fiber vs. acrylic fiber, they have worked closely with Textile Exchange. Textile Exchange is a global non-profit that works with their members to drive industry transformation in preferred fibers, integrity and standards and responsible supply networks. In close collaboration with Brown and Wilmanns Environmental LLC, Textile Exchange studied and concluded available LCA data and information with detailed literature reviews of widely used different fibers and materials within the textile industry. Based on these validated studies, Polylana® has published the below stats:

Polylana® Fiber is 100% traceable

Polylana® Fiber is embedded with the AWARE™ integrity solution, designed to provide customers using Polylana® with the highest level of transparency. Each and every production of Polylana® Fiber and final knitted products made from POLYLANA® Yarn, contains AWARE™ tracer particles and is registered on the AWARE™ blockchain to verify the authenticity of Polylana® Fiber and to validate impact claims, certification and composition.

With AWARE™ integrity technology embedded in authentic Polylana® materials, our customers have the freedom and flexibility to produce final products with their own compliant and nominated supply chain partners and proof sustainability claims to consumers. No greenwashing, but transparency and honesty. True story. Read more about Polylana® here.